LGT User Locations - Google Maps
After you click through:
(1) Log in to your Google account if you aren't logged in already
(2) Choose to edit the map
(3) Zoom into the area where you live.
(4) Click the 'Add a Placemark' button on the top of the map
(5) Click the map to add your location; place your username in the Title box. I also added my city name in the description field, but that's up to you.
(6) Click the 'Done' box on the left, and that's it.
After a couple days, I'll embed the map into an Essential Link.
Let me know if you have any problems accessing the map; I've allowed for public editing, so everyone should be able to add themselves.
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Now people can really see how absurdly close i live to the RTA rapid stops and chastise me for ever driving down to the games!
You know Selig? Ombudsman.
Brick, you must be a millionaire to afford to live right across from Grant Park. You’re too rich for this blog.
by NickFantana on Sep 16, 2008 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I’d never chastise you for not taking the rapid—that looks likes bike riding distance to me.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
bike riding distance to the RTA? or downtown?
I’ve considering riding down to an afternoon game but never happened this year. Still hoping to ride down to the West Side Market on a Saturday morning when i have the time to kill.
You know Selig? Ombudsman.
I was thinking the ballpark, but I suppose bike ownership would make your excuse for not taking the rapid even more flimsy. I’d accept Cedar Hill as reasoning for not wanting to ride home from downtown, but the ride there is downhill or flat. You can also roll your bike on the train as long as it isn’t rush hour.
On a similar note, they need more bike racks at the park. This is the first year that i’ve ever been shut out of the racks between the Q and the parking deck. The amount of people biking to the game is definitely up this year.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions
I had a comment about Cedar Hill but deleted it because I didn’t know how to make it relevant without sounding like a pansy. Driving up it yesterday there was a guy riding up and he did not look like he was having fun… nor were the curb lane drivers trying to maneuver around him.
The drive to the WSM is more reasonable because there’s still less traffic around 10:00 on a Sautrday morning than anytime I’d be riding back from a Tribe game… plus, there’d obviously be more traffic to deal with. Finally, the purpose for me taking the rapid down is so I can drink without worrying about my senses. Riding my bike to a game wouldn’t help that cause.
You know Selig? Ombudsman.
I agree the worst thing about Cedar Hill is the traffic. I rode to Coventry for a show this summer and hated it. I imagine that there’s some way around it. I have a buddy who lives near Shaker Square and works at the Clinic. He rides his bike to work year-round, sometimes late at night. Overall the East Side is more bike friendly when it comes to drivers.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
There’s a group of guys on Maui who routinely – 2-3 times a week – pedal up the volcano to Haleakula – that’s from sea level to 10,000 feet. That’s over a distance of about 32 miles. One guy told me it’s two hours up and 30 minutes down – insanity!
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Is that the volcano that you can pay about $75 and they’ll drive you up to the top to bike down? From what I heard there are few tourists each month that end up crashing and going to the hospital. Crazy stuff.
Actually it’s ~$100 and worse than that, we lose about one tourist a year on that bike trip – but that’s outta 10’s of thousands. About the same number as we lose to sharks.
The county and the Federal Park system put a moratorium on bike trips for awhile until they worked out the safety aspects. But things are back to normal and the trip organizers are more than willing to fleeze any lazy, big butted, triple chinned tourist outta his 100 bucks for the priviledge of riding in a beat-up ol’ Chevy van and coast down the mountain on a rented Roadmaster.
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Oh yeah let me clarify, by “lose” I meant “kill them deader than disco”.
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I figured. When I drove up, it didn’t look like a bike ride down was for the faint of heart, or even one with out full body armor.
When I was there I was across the street from Kamole Beach which looks like it is near your neck of the woods. Great place to be.
There’s three Kama-ole beachs – one, two and three. Kama is Hawaiian for child – ole means without, so the name of the beach translates to “without child” beach. The problem is the place is crawlin’ with kids. At Kam One there’s an outdoor roller-rink where the kids ages 8-20 have a hockey league. Very strange watching hockey outdoors 50 yards from the Pacific Ocean.
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Actally – I’ve done this touristy trip – and being an avid biker, I thought it was gonna be the adreneline ride of the year. Wrong. The bus ride up is nauseating though the view from the top makes that part absolutely worthwhile. It’s freezing cold up there at sunrise, so they deck you out in snazzy yellow windbreakers. Then the put you on tank of a bike and into a single file row. Here’s the catch: The very worst riders – those “lazy, big butted, triple chinned” folks – get put to the front on the line and they set the pace. Tour guide in front, tour guide in back, no passing allowed and down you go at something close to 2 MPH. Wheeeeeee! I know people kick the bucket on this tour, but I have NO idea how.
Here’s a tip Fred: go to the South Maui Bike shop on South Kihei Rd. and see the owner, Frank Hackette and tell him we’re ol’ compadres from way back. Rent a Trek mountain bike from him for ~$75 a week and pedal up the mountain and down on your own. It’ll be a hell of a workout and a lot more fun.
The reason for the excess caution on the tours is because of the liability associated with some mainland doofus killin’ hisself on the way down. Usually what happens is they panic and forget how a coaster brake works and they pile into a tree. Lots of suits in Maui Muny Court waitin’ for the bike trip insurers to give it up.
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Or at the very least some kind of shark storage facility.
by fleerdon on Sep 16, 2008 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
When drinking at the park, do you ever incorporate Great Lakes’ Fatty Wagon service?
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Never used it… I don’t need another excuse to go to GLBC more often than I do. If I was in Ohio City or Tremont, however, I’d probably have my own dedicated seat on it.
You know Selig? Ombudsman.
I can walk to the park in 15 minutes and bike there much quicker. My route includes the occasionally closed West 3rd Street Lift Bridge — which was closed for the entire 2006 season and still needs to be painted and shut for 30 days. When that is the case my route takes me over the Lorain-Carnegie bridge and can take 30 minutes on foot. The Fatty Wagon was a lifesaver (or buzzsaver) during the ‘06 season. It’s always a good time and the drivers are usually a trip themselves. You can park at the West Side Market for free (even though the signs seem to say different, I’ve never had, or heard of, a problem parking there when the market is closed.)
I’m already looking forward to next season when I can ride the Fatty Wagon buzzed up on my favorite Great Lakes’ seasonal, Grassroots Ale.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
PBH,
I have a friend who JUST sold her house at W. 7th and Marquardt.
When we would pick her up for games, she would take me through these backroads of the Flats until…voila…we were on the East entrance to the Lorain-Carnegie bridge.
That part of town might as well be on the moon for as well as I know it.
by The DiaTriber on Sep 16, 2008 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Good thing she moved, because I’d be expecting you guys to pick me up in the future as well. That walk up Commercial Road hill can be a sweaty bitch on a hot July afternoon.
The walk home at the end of the night is great though, especially on Fridays with the fireworks popping over your shoulder.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Funny you mention the fireworks as we used to sit on her front porch (which was one of those elevated ones over the garage) on Friday nights and watch the fireworks while polishing off some High Lifes.
by The DiaTriber on Sep 17, 2008 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions
It looks like DiaTriber, bewwolv, and me are going to have to get a little westside vs. eastside Thanksgiving morning football game together against peter M, rolub, and Voltaire. I guess we can alternate each year playing in the back yard of either PatBordersHelmet’s or millionairesrow’s house. We might be able to fly in Matt Tag from North Ridgeville to be official QB
Uh, how about home-run derby? Give the map some more time and we may have enough for a couple sides of nine and a regulation game.
Clark Field (as seen in the opening montage in Major League) is in spitting distance. Actually a good percentage of the opening scenes in that montage were literally shot in the space between our placemarkers.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions
My backyard is essentially 490, I don’t know that that would work too well.
by millionairesrow on Sep 17, 2008 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Now you’re talkin’.
Speaking of which, this should get some pub on this site.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 17, 2008 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I can sprint faster than blazes, but the trick is that I have to go down the elephant stairs (if anyone knows those) on the Case campus.
Elephant stairs SUCK
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Couldn’t get into The Village?
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Poor Ned Yost, must be awful cold down there.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com -- just in case.
This map is awesome! Thanks to Ryan for creating it.
The map of my house is definately a few years old. We built a deck on the back of our house two summers ago and it’s not there. Also, a few streets away from us there are many new houses that aren’t shown. I’m guessing the picture is probably about 4-5 years old. Still very cool, though.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
I was gonna add my house but I’ll be damned if I can find the “Add a Placemaker” button.
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My placemarker is over U. Toledo Law, which both amuses me and is probably close enough to the truth. I actually live in Monclova Twp., if anybody cares.
by fleerdon on Sep 16, 2008 12:34 PM EDT reply actions
I placed my marker over the correct wing of my dorm building. I am enabling all y’all LGTers to come stalk me.
haha I did the exact same thing for mine. Riiiiiiight on my room – it’s pretty damn cool.
You have no idea the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person
by jakesinger777 on Sep 16, 2008 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Well! Somebody cared.
I had to suppress the urge to locate myself in the middle of Salisbury Quarry.
by fleerdon on Sep 16, 2008 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, you’re not the only one with a law school marker. Though I live here less than I lived at the law school where I went.
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Sep 16, 2008 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, unfortunately it closed the weekend we moved in.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Scary thing is, Turk’s road dead ends right in front of my place. Best thing about his location you might not get on google earth? He’s 2.5 blocks from IHOP.
Still the local "Barfield Bounces Back Believer" and also has hopes for Gutz. Free Marte.
Oh snap, that’s right! You’re still in the Va. Square area, I totally forgot about that when I moved back. We need to get together for a game!
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 17, 2008 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Brick is standing in the middle of Michigan Avenue, and I fear he may be run over by an oncoming car. As an aside, when I zoomed in, the placemarker was blocking “Chicago” in such a way that it appeared to say “Choo”
actually, a secret underground bunker
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Sep 17, 2008 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Are you at W & L? I visited their law school about a year and a half ago. It’s a pretty cool little town and the campus is quite nice.
yep—i am a 1L at W&L law. love lexington—beautiful town, tons of history, super cheap cost of living, and lots of peace and quiet. . . it offers a considerably different experience than most law schools in big university or urban settings, but it was a good fit for me. there’s definitely an interesting mix of people in town, what with VMI cadets, W&L undergrads, and law students all sharing the same turf (and bar. . . yes, singular. one bar in town, lol.)
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Sep 18, 2008 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds a lot like my experience at William & Mary, although we had tourists instead of cadets, and precisely twice as many bars (one for the undergrads and one for the law students, albeit right next door to each other). The one saving grace? Equidistant to two IL franchises, one of which is now gone.
dude, W&M law was one of the first schools i got into, and i seriously thought about going there for awhile. good school, awesome location, and i thought it would be ridiculous and hilarious to have these reenactors walking all over the place while you’re going to school (although, from what i understand, the law school isn’t all that close to all the other stuff).
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Sep 19, 2008 1:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Not particularly close, no, although still walkable. We could have gone three years without knowing Colonial Williamsburg was even there, but for the Grand Illumination, which kicks off the Christmas season with some 18th century fireworks and a lot of people standing around fires. People parked for that in the law school parking lot. Unfortunately, it was always scheduled around exam time, when nerves could be slightly frayed.
For some reason, I never considered W&L, although I applied to W&M and UVa. My wife thought about it for undergrad, but she would have been in only the second co-ed class, and found the testosterone layer to be a bit too thick.
My apt. is nearly against the fortified wall of the Russian embassy, and in the vicinity of the VPs Mansion. I’m not sure if it’ll appear in Google. We’ll find out…
That’s the embassy, huh? Which direction is the mansion? It looks like they can’t/won’t show highest satellite zoom of the Naval Observatory.
To be more specific, the British have the bldg at Mass. Ave. and Observatory Circle, the one with the cars parked in the courtyard. What isn’t clear in the image is that the VPs house is right next to that. Brazil is a couple doors down, and there are dozens of embassies along Mass. between Dupont. The occasional motorcade that goes by is a pretty awesome sight.
[insert joke about “naval gazing” here]
Hey jhon, I’m in Columbia Heights. LGT: DC Metro edition looks strong.
by cleveland teamer on Sep 16, 2008 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
ah, I mean Clifton. Looks like you’re pretty near those condos that burned last winter. I was going to work on their rebuilding, but it fell through for some reason.
Mt. Pleasant is a cool strip. I very nearly moved there once.
Yeah, that was a few blocks away from me. I’m closer to the new behemoth of a shopping complex on 14th.
The name is just teamer, not steamer. I guess I was trying to be too cute with my user name.
by cleveland teamer on Sep 16, 2008 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, but you know you took that risk with that screen name.
Steamer might have to stick. Own it.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I lived in Mt. Pleasant for a while post-college. It was a little sketchy back then (about 10 years ago) but hopefully it’s cleaned up.
Last time I was in DC I realized that I didn’t miss living there AT ALL.
I’ve gotten used to it, but I doubt I’ll miss it when I move.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 17, 2008 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions
Was looking into moving their myself, but it didn’t work out
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Me too, but I like Arlington too much. I must be getting old.
Still the local "Barfield Bounces Back Believer" and also has hopes for Gutz. Free Marte.
I live close to “Old Town Alexandria” — and I rightfully feel much older.
by DisplacedBuckeye on Sep 17, 2008 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Weird, I had friends who lived right across from the Russian embassy there, I know exactly where you are.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com -- just in case.
I’m pretty damned satisfied with the neighborhood. It has everything I need: grocery stores, hardware stores, restaurants, strip club…
It actually had two strip clubs when I moved in, but we lost one to arson.
Wait, wait… you’ve got strip clubs up there and you’ve never invited me along?!
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I DID>
I didn’t have a google maps accoutn. Or something. I don’t know why google doesn’t auto create accounts for all these apps.
I had the same issue, login first, then go back to the map, that seemed to do the trick for me
by millionairesrow on Sep 16, 2008 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you really live across the street from Belmont Harbor? If so I biked right by your highrise yesterday.
i feel so lonely out in iowa, away from all the other placemarkers.
by Gradyforpresident on Sep 16, 2008 2:26 PM EDT reply actions
I could add Jay so I don’t look like the only lonely Philadelphian, but I figure it’s creepy to add someone else’s location. Plus E5 or Brandini or someone might hunt him down.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com -- just in case.
Buying that domain name was the best $10 I ever spent (or at least, the best $10 I spent last week).
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com -- just in case.
heh, so you’re the one who bought it? I’ve seen that site referenced a couple other places on the Web.
It was mentioned on NPR’s Science Friday.
Zempf, you should be on Letterman or the Colbert Show by now.
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, it was me. I got somewhere north of a million pageviews in the last week, which is insane. The best(?) part is that I have managed to make all of $0 off of it so far. I’m still waiting for Letterman or Colbert to call, I’ll be sure to let you guys know.
I have to go look for that NPR reference now, that’s cool.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com -- just in case.
Exactly. No biggie, I’ve gotten my 15 minutes of Internet fame.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com -- just in case.
i was accosted by an old man in Hy-Vee yesterday.
“Hey Chief Wahoo!”
He proceeded to tell me that he lived in Cleveland when they won the World Series. I said “48?” And he said “And ’54.”
I told my girlfriend walking out that we were swept in ’54.
by Gradyforpresident on Sep 16, 2008 3:36 PM EDT reply actions
I don’t follow your logic Chuck. You think she should’ve known about 54 and call the old bastard on it?
-Erik
The short answer is yes, any women worth the price of a cold beer should know that the Tribe got smoked in ‘54. It’s kinda like the little Colt’s test the guy in “Diner” had his fiance pass before they got married. You know: who’s the last Indian to hit .400? who is Addie Joss? who’s the stunardo that traded the Rock? name the Indians starting line-up in ’95. etc.
My wife, who know less about baseball than John Kruk, knows the years that the Tribe won the WS and the years they lost. She is exquisitely familar with the poison dart in my side that is the ’54 Series.
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I could roll with that
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I disqualify girls who claim to be Red Sox fans, but all others—whether they know Cleveland has a team or not—are fine with me.
Also disqualify Cubs fans. I was gonna say Yanks and White Sux fans, but I figure with the Yanks it’s cool if they’re from NY and with the Sux, you have to at least marginally be a baseball fan to admit being a fan of them.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 16, 2008 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions
When getting to know a girl the question of what (if any) baseball team she identifies with is pretty far down ton my list. If we’ve made it to that point, I would date a Cubs fan, provided that her roots in the Midwest. Same with the White Sox.
I have a distance-crush on a Yankees fan. She’s from Washington Heights (West Harlem), so you know she’s legit.
Red Sox fans are out of the question. They’re the type who’d make it known that they’re ‘Sox fans within the first few exchanges, so you wouldn’t have to go too far.
Baseball is an icebreaker for me. I have vowed to not date anyone who’s not a baseball fan, or can’t be easily persuaded into being one. Regional roots are one of the first things that come up in potential relationships with me, so sports allegiances follow closely.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 17, 2008 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
i can’t imagine dating a cubs or red sox fan.
by Gradyforpresident on Sep 17, 2008 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions
It would be a fate worse than death.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 17, 2008 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I grew up in Washington Heights. Back then, at least, it was more Jewish than Irish. Since then it’s become largely Dominican (Manny Ramirez went to George Washington HS up there). I hear it’s being gentrified and the Dominicans are being pushed further out again.
The Polo Grounds were actually closer to WH than Yankee Stadium, so a lot of people up there had been Giants fans and became Mets fans when they started up in 1962 (and played in the Polo Grounds for the first couple of years).
It’s cool to hear this. I think of Washington Heights as one of the few places left in Manhattan that isn’t all thoroughly gentrified. It seemed solidly Dominican as of 4 years ago, and it appeared that way when I checked in just a couple weeks ago. I hear a lot of stuff is getting built in “Manhattanville” (Columbia Us coinage), that ill defined zone between the Viaduct and 137th along Riverside.
yes to the latter. Columbia is very interested in that area and there’s development associated with their expansion there. I think there was an old Studebaker plant down there and old industrial buildings which are being either converted or torn down and replaced with things linked to Columbia.
I grew up on Riverside and 155th, an area that had gradually become more and more heavily Dominican by the time I moved out (a long time ago). I heard from someone I know who teaches at Columbia that he had just moved into that area and that there was an influx of people like him. It may just around there; further uptown (and down) may still be different.
I lived in Germany as a kid from ’90 to ’93. In case that makes you feel better.
by cleveland teamer on Sep 16, 2008 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions
i thought we had someone in turkey for a while … and there was at least one in israel for the time being (not that Israel’s in Europe)
by Gradyforpresident on Sep 16, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
that was macasson who works there periodicially as an archaeologist. a number of us pass through europe fairly regularly I think. I’m often in and around there much of the summer.
i should have studied anthropology
by Gradyforpresident on Sep 16, 2008 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I was in Israel last year, studying abroad – but I’m back in good ol’ Massachusetts now..
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by jakesinger777 on Sep 17, 2008 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions
My brother doing a study abroad in Jerusalem this semester. He’s only been there a few weeks, but he’s already fascinated by the old city. He’s sent back pictures and it looks pretty cool.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Sep 17, 2008 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s great – he is probably on the same program I was on (Hebrew U). I completely loved it – it’s an awesome city.
I have a few friends who are there now too and, since it’s not a huge program, they probably know each other – small world!
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by jakesinger777 on Sep 17, 2008 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/GOLJER.html
this book is awesome.
by Gradyforpresident on Sep 17, 2008 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
well, it’s generally England that doesn’t want to be part of Europe, but that’s a different discussion.
All European fans, how did you become a Tribe supporter?
Hey, this ain’t “Let’s Go Oranje,” you gotta use the reply button up in here!
by PatBordersHelmet on Sep 16, 2008 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Just moved to Oak Park, IL from Euclid. We’re very close to the Lake Street train.
Of course, the only days the Tribe is here the rest of the season, we’re back in Cleveland. Crap.
This is very cool, Ryan. Thanks. I’m the only guy between GFP and Dr. Faustus, apparently. CU Adam and dgcambridge, where have you guys gone?
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Sep 16, 2008 9:52 PM EDT reply actions
Wait, vbc3, you’re from Willowick? That’s my Ohio place of residence, where my parents still live. Whereabouts are you located?
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Basically right near the intersection of E305 & N Marginal/Curtis. Straight down the street from Classic Park, if you will.
Moved here in 2004. Before that, I lived in Mentor most of my life, save for a seven-year stretch of my childhood in Southfield, MI.
--
In Cliff we trust.
Nice. My parents live right across from the Shoregate “shopping center” on Lakeshore.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 17, 2008 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Ryan, by the off chance that you may have went there since it is in Akron area, do you have any opinion about the National Inventors Hall of Fame, I’m thinking about checking it out one of these weekends. If not disregard.
by hans on Sep 16, 2008 11:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I like the museum, although I haven’t been back to Akron since my parents moved a few years ago. Some of the exhibits were a bit dry, but you can always skip the text and go straight to the toys. It’s all a moot point, however, as the museum is currently closed for the construction of a new middle school, the Science, Mathematics and Technology Community Learning Center.
The Akron area is rather poorly represented on here. I’m trying for the coveted “only LGT’er living on public land” prize. Any competition there?
mrich – props for living on cleveland street. i’m rockin’ foster – just two houses down from the el stop.
Haha, hell yeah!!! Glad somebody noticed that!
I actually work at NU (in Annenberg) so I know right where your place is. Hey I’ve always wondered — is that little video shop on Foster a porno place? It looks so creepy from the outside.
My part of London is pretty non-descript but for any of those with a passing interest in soccer will see that Arsenal’s stadium is just a stone’s throw from my flat….on a good evening, when I’m not there myself, I can hear the crowd from my window.
by Luis (Tribe Fan in London) on Sep 17, 2008 4:33 AM EDT reply actions
Curious… I know you may have answered this before, but how did you become a Tribe fan? Or are you originally from Cleveland?
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 17, 2008 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions
My wife is from Ashtabula OH, and we’ve been together for a while now. We went a tribe game in Toronto in 2000, back when you could hardly get a ticket at the Jake. I had no idea what was going on but she wanted to go as it was a chance to actually see the team. She did a good job of explaining the game while we watched, and we won, so I had a good time. From there I kind of got more and more into it even though we live over here…for now. It gradually got to the point where I became so obsessed I put her off it.
I have to say though, my interest didn’t really pick up until 2003…so it amazes me looking back that I actually got hooked…I guess that team and its revolving door had a certain charm to it.
by Luis (Tribe Fan in London) on Sep 18, 2008 5:55 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s a cool story, glad to have you on our side! I’ll admit I was a big fan through the 90’s but my interest tapered off in the early 2000’s and was really kickstarted again when I found this site.
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by Turkmenbashi on Sep 18, 2008 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions
I have to admit this site did a lot for really getting me into it too…i never really understood all the different stats until I got here. It also gave me the day to day immersive fix that you lack over here because there’s no coverage, and which indians.com can’t quite fill because of the lack of real opinion.
by Luis (Tribe Fan in London) on Sep 18, 2008 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s pretty cool. I spent one of my sabbaticals in London and lived in the Russell Square area, but worked out in the East End and Queen Mary & Westfield College. I loved living in London, though it was pretty expensive.
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Sep 17, 2008 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Sadly it just gets more and more expensive. These days the east end is one of the few cheaper places left…but its slowly getting swallowed up by the inner city sprawl coming over from the west
by Luis (Tribe Fan in London) on Sep 18, 2008 5:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Haha….certainly last night wasn’t one of our best no. Thankfully I didn’t have to sit through it. Couldn’t watch it at home so went and saw Dark Knight in imax….epic!
I have to say though, you guys have had a pretty good start….I don’t think we’re up to much this season, but you definitely look like the ones to beat
by Luis (Tribe Fan in London) on Sep 18, 2008 5:58 AM EDT up reply actions
“place your username in the Title box. I also added my city name in the description field”
Um, there’s two title boxes and description fields, one for the map and one for the placemark. Of course I put my name in the wrong one and hit Done before I realized my mistake. Someone want to rename the map again…and then slap me upside the head?
Sweet, I’m the only one within driving distance of Kaufmann Stadium. That has to count for something.
Tribe fan trapped in Illinois
Everyone except Chuck and our overseas contingent are within driving distance (it’s just really far). Seriously, though, I always go to see the Royals when I’m in KS visiting my parents in the summer; it’s been one of my favorites since I was a Kansan in the days of Bret Saberhagen and Mark Gubicza (and Steve Balboni!). I also like the Kansas City T-Bones.
Nah, not Pirates fans. It seems that everyone from Akron on are Yankees fans, or haven’t you heard?
Resident LGT beer kinda sewer
I went to Youngstown St. and most of the guys I knew from there were Indians fans (unless they grew up in Pennsylvania). Of course, I have a buddy from the Y-town area who is a die-hard Indians and Steelers fan, so figure that one out. Needless to say, we argue a lot about football.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Sep 19, 2008 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions
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